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Gold 4,000 Reis Tops Ponterio Sale
 | By World Coin News
May 27, 2008 |
A gold 4,000-reis coin from Brazil sold for $40,000 in Ponterio & Associates 2,400-lot auction of world coins at the Chicago International Coin Fair.
Sale catalogers said the Brazilian 4,000 reis, an 1832-R, Standard Catalog of World Coins No. KM-386.1, had a mintage of 610 pieces. They graded this one
extremely fine.
Total realized by Ponterio's April 25-26 sale was $1,397,253.40. All prices reported in this story are hammer prices and do not include buyer fees.
The world gold offerings, about 325 lots offered, also included a Brazil 1828-B 6,400 reis, KM-370.2, which catalogers said had a mintage of 423 pieces. They graded it extremely fine and it sold for $13,000.
A roughly 550-lot Mexican coin section featured a Revolution Guerrero Suriana two pesos of 1915 with reeded edge, KM-665, graded very fine, that brought $17,000. A 1741-MF eight escudos, KM-148, described as uncirculated, hit $15,500.
Among more than 800 lots of world crowns and minors, a Belgium 1946 five francs, KM-130, with Dutch obverse legend DER BELGEN, graded EF, went for $5,000. A German 1925-E 50 pfennigs, KM-41, called almost uncirculated, sold for $2,500.
A Great Britain Oliver Cromwell crown of 1658/7, KM-D207, VF, reached $3,750.
From Russia, a 1706 poltina of Peter I, KM-124.2, called fine, sold for $4,250.
The auction, Ponterio's public auction No. 146, held in Rosemont, Ill., also featured about 200 lots of world paper money as well as just shy of 300 lots of ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins.
Images of lots may be viewed on the Ponterio Web site at www.ponterio.com.
For more information, contact Ponterio & Associates, Inc., 1818 Robinson Ave., San Diego, CA 92103; telephone (800) 854-2888 or (619) 299-0400; fax (619) 299-6952; e-mail coins@ponterio.com.
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